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Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Salgado
From: "John B" <e.brackenbury@chello.nl>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 18:43:07 +0200
References: <200108020320.UAA27941@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> <26782.996736626@www9.gmx.net>

Let us see the emptiness inside your head.  Show us your photos.
!!!!!



- ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "christian becker" <8fps@gmx.de>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 9:17 AM
Subject: [Leica] Re:Salgado


> Hm. I've always seen Salgado as an HCB epigone. Nachtwey as an McCullin
> epigone etc. . They are all pretty adapted to the market. Nothing really new. The
> ninth reproduction of cliches. 
> I don't like Wolfgang Tillmann either - he has nothing to say. Maybe Anton
> Corbijn was a refreshment - until it developed into a style, manirism. 
> Base line: one can only take pictures that are in one's head already. 
> Therefore these pictures say more about the emptiness in these heads altogether. I
> think it would be more surprising and delightful to see the unexpected, e.g.
> McCullin going to africa, covering the AIDS epidemic and bringing back -
> beautiful pictures of people - in colour - albeit the obvious misery and NOT
> reproducing the average african- powerty/misery- in-B/W scheme. Something that
> gives these victims of photojournalism back their dignity. Something that one
> would NOT expect. Something that would let us ask: what is really going on
> there?
>  
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